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Adaptive technologies can be used to support learners in a large variety of ways, as there is such a large variety of adaptive technologies. Social media websites such as twitter or facebook have been a part of my education throughout high school and college, as a way to interact with other learners and my instructors. I use Twitter for this specific class, and I have made use of facebook groups and group chats as well as a study tool. It of course can be difficult to ensure access to adaptive technologies within classrooms, as new technology is often very expensive and not every student can afford to stay up to date with the trends. Students could also take the opportunity of endless communication that the internet affords them and use it to complete their work dishonestly, such as paying someone else to do it or taking someone else’s answers.   Forbes is a great website to use to stay up to date on technology trends. 

TOOL #1- YouTube Teachers can use youtube not only to learn from others videos but to post videos of their own for students in and out of their classrooms to see. A good example of this that I can think of would be crash course lectures by the Green brothers. TOOL #2- Pinterest Pinterest has a unique organizational methodology that could be very useful for mapping lessons and other academic things, and teachers can make their own as well as search for others boards using keywords.

I’ve had a fairly easy experience with twitter so far this semester. I’ve been using twitter as a social media site for almost 5 years now with regularity, so it wasn’t difficult for me to create a new account and post things there. I think its been a good way to interact with my classmates outside of the class, especially for a course that only meets once a week. I haven’t had any sort of issues with it because I’m so used to using the website, but it has been a little different to remember to tweet twice a week every week on two separate days.  I had some difficulty on my initial attempt at the web design project, because the website was confusing for me to use and different from other website design sites I’ve used in the past. Once I switched to using Wix, I was able to make a website much more easily and felt good about the final design. Designing a website is definitely something that will be helpful for me in the future, be it in future classes or as a way to generally orga